MOVABILITY OF LOCALIZED EXCITATIONS IN NONLINEAR DISCRETE-SYSTEMS - A SEPARATRIX PROBLEM

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FLACH, S
WILLIS, CR
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[1] Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1777
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We analyze the effect of internal degrees of freedom on the movability properties of localized excitations on nonlinear Hamiltonian lattices by means of properties of a local phase space which is at least of dimension six. We formulate generic properties of a movability separatrix in this local phase space. We prove that due to the presence of internal degrees of freedom of the localized excitation it is generically impossible to define a Peierls-Nabarro potential in order to describe the motion of the excitation through the lattice. The results are verified analytically and numerically for Fermi-Pasta-Ulam chains.
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页码:1777 / 1781
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